5. This is the inferior Prakriti, O mighty-armed (Arjuna)! Know as different
from it My higher Prakriti (Nature), the very life-element by which this world is
upheld.

6. Know that these two (My higher and lower Natures) are the womb of all
beings. So, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.

7. There is nothing whatsoever higher than Me, O Arjuna! All this is strung
on Me as clusters of gems on a string.

8. I am the sapidity in water, O Arjuna! I am the light in the moon and the
sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in ether, and virility in men.

9. I am the sweet fragrance in earth and the brilliance in fire, the life in all
beings; and I am austerity in ascetics.

10. Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence
of the intelligent; the splendor of the splendid objects am I!

11. Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in
(all) beings, I am the desire unopposed to Dharma, O Arjuna!

12. Whatever being (and objects) that are pure, active and inert, know that
they proceed from Me. They are in Me, yet I am not in them.

13. Deluded by these Natures (states or things) composed of the three qualities
of Nature, all this world does not know Me as distinct from them and immutable.

14. Verily this divine illusion of Mine made up of the qualities (of Nature) is
difficult to cross over; those who take refuge in Me alone cross over this illusion.

15. The evil-doers and the deluded, who are the lowest of men, do not seek
Me; they whose knowledge is destroyed by illusion follow the ways of demons.

16. Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna! They are the distressed,
the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the wise, O lord of the
Bharatas!

17. Of them, the wise, ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excels (is the
best); for, I am exceedingly dear to the wise and he is dear to Me.

18. Noble indeed are all these; but I deem the wise man as My very Self; for,
steadfast in mind, he is established in Me alone as the supreme goal.

19. At the end of many births the wise man comes to Me, realising that all
this is Vasudeva (the innermost Self); such a great soul (Mahatma) is very hard
to find.

20. Those whose wisdom has been rent away by this or that desire, go to
other gods, following this or that rite, led by their own nature.

21. Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith-that (same)
faith of his I make firm and unflinching.

22. Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form), and
from it he obtains his desire, these being verily ordained by Me (alone).

23. Verily the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is
finite. The worshippers of the gods go to them, but My devotees come to Me.

24. The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, knowing
not My higher, immutable and most excellent nature.

25. I am not manifest to all (as I am), being veiled by the Yoga Maya. This
deluded world does not know Me, the unborn and imperishable.

26. I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present and the future, but
no one knows Me.

27. By the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion,
O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth, O Parantapa!

28. But those men of virtuous deeds whose sins have come to an end, and
who are freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, worship Me, steadfast
in their vows.

29. Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in
Me, realise in full that Brahman, the whole knowledge of the Self and all action.

30. Those who know Me with the Adhibhuta (pertaining to the elements), the
Adhidaiva (pertaining to the gods), and Adhiyajna (pertaining to the sacrifice),
know Me even at the time of death, steadfast in mind.
Hari Om Tat Sat

Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita, the science of the
Eternal, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna,
ends the seventh discourse entitled: "The Yoga of Wisdom and Realisation"